Under the “Totem-Pole”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 837, 4 December 1929, Page 15

Under the “Totem-Pole”

Letters to Redfeather are answered as follow:—Silver Moccasin: This Brave has found the Camp of Redfeather. Greetings and welcome, Silver Moccasin. Your drawing is a fine piece of work. . . . Great Lone Eagle: Your troop is lucky in its camping excursions, Great Lone Eagle, and I hope you will all have a happy time at Christmas. Thank you for your troop news . . . Yellow Feather; •Welcome home to the Wigwam, Yellow Feather. It is many moons since you have paused under the Totem Pole. What a splendid holiday you had. Launching is fine fun . . . Bluebird: Many thanks, faithful one. I was glad to have your company news and to see the results of vour swimming sports. A good wish for Second St. David’s . . . Golden Birch; Your last report for 1929 makes interesting reading. Golden Birch, and I like your illustration. My best holiday wish to your company. I hope Cavell will be represented in the “Wigwam when the scribes for next 3*ear are appointed Golden Flame: You have had a long illness. Golden Flame, but I am gmc that you have now recovered. That was a fine holiday, and I am sure you enjoyed it after all those weeks in bed A Wigwam thought for this Brave Flying Cloud: Yes, the year is hastening to its close. Time flies just as cloud = do. You will not be excluded from the Wigwam circle when you have turned 20. though you will be over competition age Friendships that have their beginning round the Wigwam camp-fire are not measured bv days or years. A good wish for Flying Cloud . . . Red Star; Yes, t is fine fun standing on tiptoe. Red Star. If von stand on tiptoe and close your eyes and wish, something exciting is sure to happen. I hope you are not forgetting vour entries for the Christmas competitions. We must have a story and a poem from Red Star . . . Straight Feather: The results of the annual comnetition for scribes will be announced in the Wigwam Christmas nage. Straight. Feather, but you may forward an account .of your camp if you wish. At the beginning of the year new scribes will be apnointed or the present ones returned. My best wishes to the Ellerslie troop.

A FAMOUS ANIMAL PAINTER

Able to carry a horse upstairs on his shoulders, George Stubbs, who died just over 120 years ago, was the most famous animal painter of bis day. He began studying when lie was only eight years old and by the time he was 20 he was teaching others. Then he went to Italy, where he met a Moor, who took him on a visit to his African home. One day, standing on the wall of :t Moorish town, Stubbs saw a liori in the desert leap upon a horse. This made such an impression on the artist that he went home and made it the subject of one of his most famous pictures. Stubbs’s mind was as strong as hi c body. He was very fond of having opinions which were different from other people's and nothing would make him change them.